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cheers, didn't think it would be much of a problem but i use vista on my desktop and have become addicted to the glass interface so wanted to make sure

Hi All Looking for a laptop to handle stuff while i'm on the move, and just wondering if it's worth getting a discrete GPU The basic GPU is an Intel GMA 4500MHD - the CPU is a 2.0GHz Core2Duo with 3GB Ram, it won't be used for gaming, but for general computing, media and the Aero interface...

I've watched Crysis suck up 2.25GB of RAM during the endgame sequence, definitely buy lots of RAM, 4GB is nice, 8GB is probably overkil for most apps but it allows Vista to prefetch a lot of stuff...

yep, when you fall off (and you will, if you don't you're not trying hard enough) the bike sits on three contact points, the axle slider on the front/rear and the handguards that have a solid metal bar running round them, nothing else gets near the floor except the peg that folds back out the...

that's cause it is:D the throttle response is crazy, open the throttle aggressively in 1st/2nd/3rd/4th and the front wheel's airborne, 5th/6th require a small crest but it'll happily lift anytime, it's like riding a BMX bike only a lot lot faster, slipper clutch so sliding it round a go kart...

My Suzuki SV650 Sport My Suzuki DR-Z400SM My KTM 560SMR racing supermoto, 60bhp atw and 114kg wet with a full tank and all it's street gear, 105kg in race trim - mental bike Trading the DRZ and the SV for a Daytona 675 before spring though...

ThermalRight Ultre Extreme 120 was the best you could get when i built my rig in November, don't know if anything can match it yet?

i know it's entirely subjective, but i'm sure Fallout 3 doesn't crash as frequently as it did before i added the memory... it used to either CTD or simply freeze once every hour of play or so, with a 6:1 ratio of freezes to CTDs or so since installing it's frozen once, and had about 3 CTD...

Update: Hit >50% usage playing Fallout 3 yesterday, loading times are definintely improved, especially the time it takes from clicking the desktop shortcut to programs actually starting

Thanks for the welcome everyone, was wondering if everything was working OK - will hopefully put my 8800 Ultra to some use when i'm not using it...

well, i made good on my threat and bought another 4GB - just installed and started up and apart from my windows experience going from 5.5 to 5.9 not much was different, restarted and now firefox starts instantly, and i mean instantly, under a second to clicking the quick launch icon to having...

i reckon once the amount you spend cooling your computer approaches or exceeds the amount you spent on the computer itself, the process ceases to be engineering and becomes religion;)

The TRUE on my Q9550 fits just fine in my P182, i have it fitted vertically with one fan on the heatsink and a further two on the rear and top exhausts on the case

Vista x64 runs just fine, as anyone who actually uses it and isn't jumping on the "omg vista is teh ghey" bandwagon that crashed about the time SP1 came out will tell you saying vista must be crap because you notice an improvement when upgrading a component is like saying games are all crap...

wow, jumping to conclusions there - if you read what i said i never promoted such an action, i actually said it wasn't ethical, make of that what you will...